The debate over whether Graham Platner is “working class” comes at a time when more and more people are at risk of falling into it. By Noam Scheiber Hasan Piker argues Democrats are struggling to ...

Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system. In October ...

If Karl Marx hadn't died in 1883, we can suppose he'd be used to being misunderstood and demonized by now. His story and his ideas are certainly more complex than many of us realize. Love and Capital: ...

For nearly two centuries, Karl Marx’s ideas have had a significant impact on US politics and intellectual life. In turn, Marx’s close study of the US informed the development of his ideas about ...

Karl Marx wrote volumes warning the world about capitalism's ability to commodify everything: thought, art, labour, even identity. What the 'Father of Communism' likely never imagined was that one day ...

The Grundrisse was a set of notebooks Karl Marx wrote in 1857-58 while preparing for what would eventually become Capital. There, in his scattered reflections, is a passage that now reads like an ...

Hasan Piker argues Democrats are struggling to construct effective media narratives. On “Interesting Times,” he tells Ross Douthat why he thinks conservatives are better at pushing their message. By ...

IN 1983, while the International Socialist Organization was still a very young group, Duncan Hallas came to the U.S. to give a national tour of meetings about Karl Marx--in honor of the 100th ...

Before industrialization societies were stationary. Afterwards, growth became the new norm. The challenge was how to encase it in conceptual thinking. Economics was invented to do so. The first ...

A story about Karl Marx and his controversial love for Jenny, his near-lost friendship with Engels, the evolution of philosophy and dialectics, the thought of transforming the world through political ...